A quantum field theory view of interaction free measurements

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00350-8MaRDI QIDQ2072048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Filipe C. R. Barroso, O. Bertolami

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03339

zbMATH Keywords

interaction free measurementsWeinberg's soft photon theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We propose a Quantum Field Theory description of beams on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer and apply the method to describe Interaction Free Measurements (IFMs), concluding that there is a change of momentum of the fields in IFMs. Analysing the factors involved in the probability of emission of low-energy photons, we argue that they do not yield meaningful contributions to the probabilities of the IFMs.

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